Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to write. And that would be me. I've moved my journal about my writing life over to LiveJournal http://susanwrites.livejournal.com
This blog will be filled with writing prompts and exercises so we can all write on right now! Please feel free to share your favorites.

Thursday, July 07, 2005

I am officially a Tricycle Press author!

At last, after very long negotiations where my wonderful agent Jodi Reamer earned every single penny of her commission, I am thrilled to announce a sale! Tricycle Press just bought my middle grade verse novel HUGGING THE ROCK which they want to bring out fall of 2006.

Oh, I''m jealous, jealous, jealous! I saw their booth at IRA and decided they were in my publishing future. Wait for me, I still plan on filling out your reader survey, I've just been too swamped as of late.

Oh, and congrats! Can't wait until I can blog the same thing. Now, tell me: how long from start to finish did this take.

Thanks so much everyone! It is such fun to be able to share this with so many people.

Don, it took a while. I finished the first version of the book November 2002. The deal came July 2005. In-between there I changed agents, revised the manuscript twice more,and bit my nails, a lot. Tricycle had the first version of the book for over a year.

It's worth it. Really it is. And I am so excited that Tricycle is only about an hour away from me.

Who am I? I was born on the Cancer/Leo cusp and share a birthday with Ernest Hemingway and Robin Williams.
The similarities don't stop there as I can go from depressed to ecstatic without ever passing go.
I feel scared most of the time though my friends call me brave and I find it easier to believe in my
friends than to belive in my own abilities to make what I want out of my life.

Who am I? A wife, a mother, a daughter, and even, gulp, a grandmother.

Who am I? A writer who never gets tired of playing with words, even when the words are hard to find.
A writer of books for children and articles for grown-ups and many things in-between.